I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that’s been helpful in my marriage.

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I’m not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He’s so fast.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. But it almost doesn’t matter to a certain segment...

I don’t know how an actress is supposed to observe and create new stuff if she hasn’t been on the streets, brushing up against humanity. You have to have a life.

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

We didn’t have a lot when I was growing up, and it’s the best thing that happened to me because I appreciate everything. I developed a strong work ethic, and I don’t take anything for...

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don’t know why. I just get embarrassed.

I don’t judge others. I say if you feel good with what you’re doing, let your freak flag fly.

I love, love, love being an actor – it’s still the hardest and scariest thing I do, outside of parenting. But I’ve always been someone who likes a busy day.

I wanted a family, but before I had a family, I was a career person. I’ve tried to marry those two things, and sometimes it is successful, and sometimes it is not.

Can you really forgive if you can’t forget?

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.

I wouldn’t know how to be on Facebook if my life depended on it.

You can’t be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.

I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat,...

I’m a bitter-ender. It’s potentially my fatal flaw that I do not give up on something. I will not rest. I work and work and work until I can no longer and someone has to...

It’s like the riddle of the Sphinx… why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.